Metal Gear Solid 4

Which is it for you? Please put the name of the game at the top of the post, because of the massive spoiler potential.

There's something about seeing two men go from ready fighters to old men punching each other in the face, that just never gets boring.

Metal Gear Solid 4, no doubt, followed closely by my favourite game ever: God of War 2.

Golden Sun 2, the Lost Age.
A handheld game with a final boss that took me 50 min. to beat not to mention the fact that it was about 25 stories tall.

Hm

I would have to say Metal Gear Solid 4, but Golden Sun 2 had a good one, but none have topped MGS4

Fable, an lengthy epilogue with plenty of combat, an intense boss fight and the plot being rounded out without feeling forced or crowbarred in. One of the few games I felt I had properly completed when the credits rolled, unlike the Acheivements-centric games I tend to play now...

Terranigma was really the most moving final boss fight for me. You were fighting against someone who had deceived in tricked you from the very beginning of the game and then stolen all of your victory from under your feet right when you think you've won.

Also satisfying: Jak 2 and the first God of War.

Maybe not the grandest, but my favorites:

Lunar: The Silver Star (Sega CD)
Mass Effect
Super Mario Bros. 2 (first NES game I owned, so it was special to me)

Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess

I loved this game, and the 4-stage boss fight included all the best elements, instead of just forgetting it and going for a sword fight (although, happily, there is one of those too). It complemented the story perfectly, and didnt really feel like they had just stuck it on at the end. It feels like they had the ending the whole way through, and it just rolled smoothly into it.

@Dahemo
I found Fable's final boss to be a bit easy. Dodge his attack, (Or just let it hit you and drink a potion) use bow, repeat.

Final Fantasy VI always struck me as the most epic. Between the glorious "Dancing Mad" that accompanied the battle (which I've always preferred over "One-Winged Angel") and the size of the actual boss, it was awe inspiring for a Super Nintendo game. The tower itself wasn't just an intimidating mass, either. Every level of it stood for some aspect of the journey and the mythos surrounding it.

Cheesus333:
Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess

I loved this game, and the 4-stage boss fight included all the best elements, instead of just forgetting it and going for a sword fight (although, happily, there is one of those too). It complemented the story perfectly, and didnt really feel like they had just stuck it on at the end. It feels like they had the ending the whole way through, and it just rolled smoothly into it.

even so, it was too easy

Probably Rainbow 6 Vegas 2. You end up 1 man versus 20 and a fucking helicopter. Then you shoot it down and use ur pistol on a guy.

CoD4. Emotional and Epic.

TheGreenManalishi:

Cheesus333:
Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess

I loved this game, and the 4-stage boss fight included all the best elements, instead of just forgetting it and going for a sword fight (although, happily, there is one of those too). It complemented the story perfectly, and didnt really feel like they had just stuck it on at the end. It feels like they had the ending the whole way through, and it just rolled smoothly into it.

even so, it was too easy

Yeah, I guess it was too easy really.

Do it with your nose and tongue then.

Indigo_Dingo:
MGS IV, especially with the bonus points for revealing the symbolism behind all the other end boss fights, and bringing them all together so eloquently.

I actually cried when I found out what happened with Liquid Ocelot. But still, nothing, not even MGS4 will ever top the perfection that is MGS3. Maybe Metal Gear Solid 4 is a better game, but MGS3 will always be the greater game. The end fight with The Boss was absolutely epic, moreso because I found out how to counter her CQC moves.

It's been said before a couple of times, but I laughed my ass off when I discovered how Kojima wanted me to "finish the fight" in MGS4 so to speak.

how is that?

glados, because it was the only fight in the game so you never saw it coming.

In Turok you fight a T-rex at the end, It's huge.

Indigo_Dingo:

exocel:
glados, because it was the only fight in the game so you never saw it coming.

How'd you think you were gonna end it?

i had no idea, i avoided any spoilers so to go form a puzzle game to a full on fps with puzzle elements for a boss fight like that was a surprise, and a pleasant one, which in this day and age of gaming is a rare thing.

I always thoguht the endings to Halo 1 and 3, the jeep chases were pretty awesome. Best parts of the games except Halo 1, when you first emerge onto Halo. Also the Library in Halo 1. Also the Cartographer in Halo 1. Oh man that level was awesome.

Minesweeper, when you're struggling with the last mine and a 50% chance of blowing it up.

Seriously, I love the last level in Halo. Or, for being a rewarding combat, the end of Call of Cthulhu: Dark corners of the earth.

Indigo_Dingo:

exocel:
glados, because it was the only fight in the game so you never saw it coming.

How'd you think you were gonna end it?

Cake?

Legend of Zelda Majora's Mask/Incarnation/Wrath.
Probably the only part of the game that was better than Ocarina of Time. Fighting Ganondorf in OOT was good but Majora was more fast paced and gripping.

rune342:
Golden Sun 2, the Lost Age.
A handheld game with a final boss that took me 50 min. to beat not to mention the fact that it was about 25 stories tall.

I never bought the sequel, shame, because i liked the first one, would like to see how it ends even though i have really forgotten the storyline by now :(

AS for boss fights i would say Starfox Adventures, such a huge facepalm moment, still don't know if i am supposed to laugh or cry, but i did not see it coming ^^

Ganon, from just about any Zelda game, though the best ones are from Legend of Zelda (the first one) and the Ocarina Of Time

Gotta go with Ganondorf, from The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker. It was the first time you got to fight him in a man-to-man(er, boy), knock-down, drag out sword fight to the finish. It's intensified by the fact that at that point, Ganondorf has essentially already lost his chance to use the Triforce. In other words, he's not fighting you to get you out of his hair, like he did in past games... He's doing it because he wants you dead.

Space Spoons:
Gotta go with Ganondorf, from The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker. It was the first time you got to fight him in a man-to-man(er, boy), knock-down, drag out sword fight to the finish. It's intensified by the fact that at that point, Ganondorf has essentially already lost his chance to use the Triforce. In other words, he's not fighting you to get you out of his hair, like he did in past games... He's doing it because he wants you dead.

That was exactly why I HATED it. You're not deciding the fate of the world. You're just surviving.

I liked Ganon, from OOT quite a bit more. Or at least, the introduction and atmosphere of the fight. It was pretty unexpected, and just struck complete awe into you.

I just beat Trauma Center: Under the Knife 2, and I liked the combination of boss music and difficulty in its final boss.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDlXW7Lnxwg
(Super-hard version of the fight beaten by a Korean on Red Bull with two stylus)

Space Spoons:
Gotta go with Ganondorf, from The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker. It was the first time you got to fight him in a man-to-man(er, boy), knock-down, drag out sword fight to the finish. It's intensified by the fact that at that point, Ganondorf has essentially already lost his chance to use the Triforce. In other words, he's not fighting you to get you out of his hair, like he did in past games... He's doing it because he wants you dead.

I never thought of it like that. And I thought TP was dark.

Metal Gear Solid's last 3 sections (fighting Metal Gear, Liquid and then the chase) is as epic and perfect as they come.

Best one ever has to be, Hl2 Ep2.